Motivational Quotes

Silence

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

- Delint, Charles

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

10.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

11.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

12.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

13.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

14.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

Those that are silent profess consent.

16.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

17.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

18.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

19.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

20.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

21.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

24.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

25.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

26.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

27.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

28.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

29.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

30.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

31.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

32.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

33.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

34.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

35.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

37.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

38.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

39.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

40.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

41.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

42.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

45.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

46.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

47.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

50.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.